Grisha Archipenko

Grisha Archipenko (22 January 1868-15 June 1907) was an SR Combat Organization terrorist during the early 1900s.

Biography
Grisha Archipenko was born on 22 January 1868 in Yuzhne, Russian Empire to a family of poor Ukrainians, and he worked on his family's farm. Archipenko would become involved in revolutionary activities and with the SR Combat Organization, a socialist terrorist group. Archipenko decided to take up arms with the Socialist Revolutionary Party during the 1905 Russian Revolution, and he assassinated Mayor Stepan S. Burtsov on 17 October 1906. Archipenko was involved in a number of other shootings during the wave of terrorism in the early 1900s, and he was arrested in 1907 after the Okhrana managed to capture him. On 15 June 1907, he was executed by firing squad in prison.